A Place at the Table: Struggles for Equality in America

A Place at the Table: Struggles for Equality in America by Fleming, Maria. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780195150360.

Inspiring and true, A Place at the Table chronicles the lives of American freedom fighters whose stories are little-known, but whose efforts have paved the way for equality and justice in the face of extreme prejudice. Unsung heroes and their brave deeds, such as house slave Elizabeth Freemans momentous court battle winning her freedom, suffragette Sara Bard Fields cross-country journey for womens rights, and Nisqually Indian Billy Frank Jr.s fight for Native American land rights, toppled barriers in education, voting, employment, housing, and other areas of discrimination. A rousing history of American champions of justice, A Place at the Table is filled with men and women who, when told by society to "stay in their place," insisted that "their place" was at the American table as full-fledged participants in democracy.